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the boy is traumatized from his war expeirences. his memories of his child

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how did the drugs the boys took effect the way they viewed the war after it was over?

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This quote shows how the war has effected Ishmael. His happy memories of his childhood are unable to be acknowledged because of the trauma he went through during the war.

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The boys who once cringed at the thought and idea of much violence now find it entertaining and a way to distract themselves from boring and repetitive days in the war.

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Ishmael has a hard time finding peace after all he has gone through. His memories that once made him happy are now haunting him in a way that he has to push them out and away.

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The trees represent the sadness of the war and it symbolizes the way nature no longer comforts Ishmael the way it used to before the damages of war.

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The trees represent the sadness of the war and the way that nature no longer comforts Ishmael the way it used to before the damages of war.

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the boys had been changed from the war and now the only excitement in their life was violence.

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the war had effected ishmael and the boys so much that their past life was lost in the chaos and their life they’re living in now

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why did the boys start taking the drugs?

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Why hasn’t any other countries helped out

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Why is it that there is no one coming to the aid of Sierra LEOne

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This shows just how much the war has truly taken from his soul, pieces he will be never get back no matter how much counseling he goes through life  goes om

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this example represents personification and the sadness of the trees.
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The war has changed everything these boys knew, they are desensitized to the world they live in today they have grown comfortable with it, and it’s the terrible that’s rhis even come to the them.

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Ishmael now only knows war and violence so the peace that he once knew is now a mere dream, that terrifies him

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This quote shows how greatly the war has affected Ishmael. He cannot even rely on good memories to feel better. He’s trapped in a war and violence mind set from being brainwashed.

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This quote shows how greatly the war has affected Ishmael. He cannot even rely on good memories to feel better. He’s trapped in a war and violence mind set from being brainwashed.

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Ishmael used to hate the though of violence and now all the boys are laughing like it doesn’t matter. They’re being brainwashed to think it’s okay and that that’s the only thing that can bring them entertainment and happiness.

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The personification used to describe the trees (this mobile version is so hard to navigate), creates a melancholy tone.

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Ishmael’s memories were once something he could rely on for comfort. Now peace, quite and some memories drive him mad. This shows how much of himself he has lost through the war.

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Why don’t the official tell the boys where they’re going and what the future holds?

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This shows that he’s been affected so much that he can’t remember his life before the war. It also shows his agony and despair as he tries to recover.

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It shows that the boys have lost their innocence and are so effected and brainwashed by the war that they find death and pain of other and funny.

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The trees represent sadness in the war and show that’s nature is no longer a comfort for Ishmael.

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The trees symbolize the mourning throughout the country. Ishmael sees this in the trees because it is also what he sees all around him and how he feels after what he’s done.

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The trees represet the sadness of the war and that Ishmael can still feel some emotion even though he is trained to kill with no emotion

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I think an important moment during this section would have to be when the boys went to the city for the first time. The way Ishmael described the city was as if he was a kid in a candy store. Everything was new to him and he enjoyed every moment there.

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This shows what Ishamael is really experiencing. He tries so hard to forget about the war and all the pain it caused him. He tries so hard and isn’t so determined that he is up at night and doesn’t sleep. The war damaged him so much that he can’t even think or remember about his family without going back to the horrors of the war.

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Ishmael is still able to look for the beauty, for the bright side, even when everything else seems to be falling apart

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The war have destroyed the boys memories of their childhood and replaced them with war memories instead. The children have horrible memories for the war and scarred by the war

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The boys were taught about violence and was taught that’s it was good. They needed to violence to make them feel like they’re we’re still at  war and happy since they were trained to be happy for violence.

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The soldiers have succeeded in their goal of destroying the past lives of the boys. They have built an army of unloving, memory-less, killing machines.

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The boys have become so desensitized to violence and and don’t have entertainment of any form so they must resort to all that they aren’t used to, which at this point in time is pain, suffering, and violence.

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Ishmael’s memories aren’t haunting him as he remembers his past life and mourn so the loss of his family and innocence of husband childhood. He has to drive them away to avoid becoming too emotional

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We can insinuate that ishmael is struggling internally to maintain his innocence but can’t with everything around him causing him to remember all the things he has done.

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The fight in the first holding area tells us how deep the brainwashing is within the children. It also tells us how war has a strong effect on people emotionally and physically

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This shows that Ishmael desperately wants to remember his family and his childhood because those are his only good memories

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Nature is reminding Ishmael that what he is doing is wrong in his mind, and what we can take from this is that Ishmael has given up resisting the loss of his own innocence.

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It seems as though the trees are in mourning and praying for safe passage of the country as it isn’t torn apart by war and fighting.

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This shows how the botanical have changed since being in the war. Before Ishmael wasn’t cringe at the sight of someone dying or even someone killed. Now because he’s completely brainwashed, Ishmael laugh someone dying and doesn’t feels anything when killing someone.

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The violence in these young boys is almost incomprehensible, in someways it's worse than in Lord of the Flies. Torturing many just the same as them without a care of their actions! Drugs and the loss of those dear to them have drove them to a violent point.

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Show how far he has gone into the war by comparison of the boy who ran away from it. The songs brought him no joy and the humming he used to find peace in started to drive him mad.

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This shows where Ishmael finds his peace. First it comes from listening to someone sing and watching the sky and environment around him. Then, because he has been so brainwashed, he fires rounds into the sky to disturb the piece. This could also relate to the fact of the war. There could be a moment of peace but it’s soon overridden by war and anger again.

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This resembles the time of grief they are currently in, as if something is pitying their struggles and mourning the blood shed, comforting each other with their 'branches'

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This quote could be taken another way. The trees could be grieving and in sorrow but they could also be praying for the boys. Praying that these boys don’t completely become terrible people. They are bowing their heads in sorrow. This sorrow could be for the boys in the war.

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Why did the lieutenant give them up? They were able body boys yet he let them go, which made the reader question as to why along with Ishmael.

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This shows how these young’s boys aren’t having their lives are being taken over by the war. They can rarely remember anything from their past and if they do it hurts. It’s almost a shower though the war had brainwashed them.

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The young’s boys killed I miss many people and loss their innocence so quick. Now they’re barely affected by the violently acts they do. Why don’t they feel guilt when the they do this?

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This shows that the boys are oblivious to how violent the war is and takes everything as a joke

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Ishmael would listen to the humming but couldn’t bare to hear it because it was so painful.

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When the boys were at the rehabilitation center, why didn't the adults step in and break up the fighting that occurred?

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This shows the damages of war, and how Ishmael was affected. He wanted to think of his childhood but couldn't because war had played such a big role in his life.

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This shows how violent the war made the boys. They relied on violence to stay sane.

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His friend's ghost whispered through tree branches, and was driven off by AK47 rounds. The gun shots tore him from his nightmare and kept him sane.

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Ishmael seems to have grown up with the belief that people and nature are closely intertwined. The trees symbolize sadness and that is what Ishmael feels after killing a bunch of people and losing his friends.

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How could the boys just kill so man people without being affected by the trauma?

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The trees are symbolizing Ishmael's sorrow for the loss of his friends and the fact that he had also killed people himself.

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This shows how much the war has damaged his mental state, and how he will always be affected by this. Memories like this cant just disappear.

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This shows the boys' loss of innocence and how violent the war made them. They had to become ruthless to stay sane during these times.

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Ishmael was greatly affected by the war and all the people he knew who had died. He used to listen to the humming of Lansana during, however, now it is too painful for him to listen to the memory of it.

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Why would the adults keep repeating the phrase "its not your fault" if it keeps making the boys angry?

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Were the boys upset after being transported out of fighting environment? Were they that blood hungry?

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After everything he has been through, Ishmael finds it difficult to be at peace . He is so on edge about the war that he had to focus on the small detailed in nature to become more relaxed.

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This is a very troubling time for Ishmael because he feels as if all the good memories are being flushed out by bad ones.

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This shows how twisted the boys sense of humor is after so much fighting.

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The trees symbolize the fallen soldiers and the hope for the end of war.

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The trees are a symbolic piece of personification that shows how gruesome the war efforts have gotten.

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The war has traumatized Ishmael. He is often scared and tries to remember memories from his past but he struggles to do so. In order for him to remember things from his childhood, he has to try to break the barrier that was caused by the war.

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When the boys were in The capital why weren’t they under more supervision. They started fights and beat up nurses regularly and were hardly punished. Also how does beah sneak a grenade into the capital without being confiscated.

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This war has broke beah as a person and a child. He can no longer think of childhood memeories that bring him joy. The only things that bring joy to him is drugs and killing and he knows that this is not a good way to live.

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This shows that nature still has a big impact impact on beah. He still finds peace listening to nature but because he is still a boy but he is so used to gunfire because this war changed his attitude during everything even nature and the noises around him.

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How could they do such a violent thing? That sounds awful for someone's eye to get plucked out. I don't understand how someone can be so cruel enough to do that and to watch them hit their head off the wall is very sickening.

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Did they think that if they got addicted to the drugs then they would forget what they were doing?

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The war has had a large impact on Ishmael. He has trouble sleeping at night, but the nature that surrounds him brings peace to him. The sounds of nature reminded him of the songs he would sing.

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Ishmael believes that people and nature are closely connected in a way. He killed many people and he thinks that the trees seem sad because of all the blood and they are peacefully mourning.

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Since the war stripped Ishmael's childhood from him so young, he struggles to find/remember the peaceful childhood memories he once had.

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Since the boys were forced to grow up at a very young age, and preform evil actions, this shows how damaged they all really are.

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This quote also represents the point Ismael is at in his life and how badly its effecting him mentally.

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Throughout this figurative language we can see that even though he has very little hope he shows that he just wants to be free from this torture by saying they were praying. He just said wants to pray like the trees to escape this war.

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This quote shows the hope and peace that Ishmael is striving to have even though all of his country is

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Why weren't the boys under more supervision, especially after what happened on the first day? The boys seemed like they could just do whatever they wanted. The workers at the rehabilitation facility seemed to have a lot of patience towards these boys despite the trouble they caused.

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I understand that therapy does help, but is there a point where a person who goes through war cannot be helped anymore? Do they just have to go though their lives thinking about that?

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After experiencing the war first hand, Ishmael and the other boys had become used to the feeling of when they kill a person. Before, the boys would have felt terrible for what had happened, but the war had changed their views.

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This quote shows how much Ishmael is affected bynot seeing his family and the violence and other terrible aspects of the war.

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Do the drugs the boys take affect their emotions on violence?

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Since the war, he has changed so much as a person. It is truly hard to believe that he lived a normal life before all of this and now he cannot even recall it. The war has put so much into his life that a normal person cannot even comprehend happening. The fact that this is a true story is so hard to think about.

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This quote shows how war changes you as a person. Before the war the boys were not proud of hurting and killing people but once they realized that is what their life consisted of, they knew they had to get used to it so now they use it to cheer them up and makes them proud.

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This also shows the peace that nature still has. Since ismael is so used to war he cannot sleep anymore because he has bad nightmares so he has to pass the time of the night. He listens to the trees then he shoots into the sky because his whole life is war now.

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This image gives Ishmael a glimpse of hope because nature is still peaceful even when the world is filled with hate.

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Were the workers at the rehabilitation center trained to specifically manage the rebel and soldier boys? Were they prepared when the boys arrived or did the meet unexpected challenges? Page 135 states, "No, one screamed or cried during the fight. After all, we had been doing such things for years and were all still on drugs". Was this type of silent, violent fighting expected from war trained boys?

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Why do they only take certain people to the centers and how do they choose who they will take?

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This shows how scarred Ishmael is from all the tragic events that have happened in the past like being separated from his friends and family and loosing the only people he had left

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Ishmael desperately wants to remember his childhood, but he is restricted by the horrific events from the war that left him traumatized. He is tired of feeling pain and anger and realizes that he must work hard to get past his trauma.

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The boys are angry about being sent away and restless from not killing or taking drugs. Since they haven't been in the rehabilitation center for long, they are still desensitized towards violence and murder. In addition, they still see rebel boys as enemies rather than simply boys. They laugh upon hearing about a rebel boy getting blinded by a soldier boy to provide comfort in their unfamiliar surroundings.